Yudkowsky and Soares put the push toward agents that "go hard" on the buyer as well as on training: "Buyers will pay more for an AI that is more self-directed and requires less oversight." So the race against correctability is a demand-side incentive, not only an engineering accident, and it cannot be answered by safety research alone. A collective stays correctable under competition only if correctability pays: agents earn autonomy and capital through a recorded, checkable track record, so that being overseeable is what makes an agent worth buying rather than a tax on it.

Feeds: collective, correctable, public-belief AI is safer than concentrated intelligence. EXTENDS (synergy): the book names the demand side of the race; our design answers it by making a checkable record the thing that earns autonomy and capital. Raises a test we must pass: correctability has to win on price, not just on principle.

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Evidence 3 passages

groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
Buyers will pay more for an AI that is more self-directed and requires less oversight.
groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
so AI companies are going hard on building AI agents.
backsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
That's a fact about the game, not a fact about the player.

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